samba - Aug 2014 - replication issues solved by adding GUID names to /etc/hosts

Hi all,

We were having replication issues on wheezy with sernet-samba-4.1.11.

Searching the list I found the following post:
http://marc.info/?l=samba&m=136999742625184&w=2

It says basically that if you are unable to *ping* the GUID names for 
your dc's, you might be experiencing a glibc error, where dns names with 
an underscore are not properly resolved.

Note: dns is basically correct, 'host' gives all the correct answers, 
samba_dnsupdate on all dc's says: no dns updates are needed.

The fix in the post, is to add GUID names to /etc/hosts which I did on 
my dc's, and then all of a sudden ping started working like it should. 
But ALSO replication! Our 'WERR_BADFILE' errors are gone now.

Now, is this not something that should be much more prominent in the docs?

Kind regards,
Mourik Jan

Hello Mourik Jan,


Am 26.08.2014 20:24, schrieb mourik jan heupink - merit:
> We were having replication issues on wheezy with sernet-samba-4.1.11.
> 
> Searching the list I found the following post:
> http://marc.info/?l=samba&m=136999742625184&w=2
> 
> It says basically that if you are unable to *ping* the GUID names for
> your dc's, you might be experiencing a glibc error, where dns names
with
> an underscore are not properly resolved.
> 
> Note: dns is basically correct, 'host' gives all the correct
answers,
> samba_dnsupdate on all dc's says: no dns updates are needed.
> 
> The fix in the post, is to add GUID names to /etc/hosts which I did on
> my dc's, and then all of a sudden ping started working like it should.
> But ALSO replication! Our 'WERR_BADFILE' errors are gone now.
> 
> Now, is this not something that should be much more prominent in the docs?
Thanks for providing this information. I'll try finding out more about
that and add it to the documentation.


Regards,
Marc